The Salone Internazionale del Mobile together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, returns - from 16th to 21st this year – at the Milan Fairgrounds at Rho with a huge range of exhibits.

danskdesign.nu is a privately held furniture & design company based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They started in November 2002 with the opening of a state of the art furniture & gift store that focuses on Scandinavian designed items which includes world known brands such as Georg Jensen, Rosendahl, Eva Solo and Bodum.

The concept of this club and bar, designed by Gunter Fleitz & Peter Ippolito, centres on the person of Theodor Heuss. The club is thus a tribute to Theodor Heuss, the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany, and its name “T-O12” (pronounced “Theo 12” in German) also hints to the address of the [...]

Zlatko Antolovic and Alexander Wendlik’s practice COAST completed the T-Bone house last summer. At a modest 150 square metres, this family home near the German town of Waiblingen mixes environmentally friendly technology like Geothermal heating

Architect Tadao Ando has designed a new contemporary arts centre in Venice for luxury goods tycoon François Pinault. The project will convert the historic Punta della Dogana building into a space for part of the François Pinault collection and will open in 2009.

When you say Switzerland, the first thing that will come to my mind is the Alps, beside the chocolate, watches, and the banks of course! Now here is the bad news…

Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers call a “commitment to living sustainably”. With renewable energy systems, a green roof, rainwater harvesting and waste minimization, the design tries to prove that concrete is an environmentally [...]

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects’ Journal and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.

Morphosis won the International Competition for the design of the “Phare” Tower (Lighthouse), the centerpiece of a redevelopment in the business district, La Défense, just outside of Paris. Mayne beat out the likes of Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas to win the competition. Its expected completion date is 2012…

One of this month’s earlier posts, ArkitecTrue announced French architect Jean Nouvel had won a competition to design the new Philharmonie de Paris building at Parc de La Villette in the French capital. The aluminum-clad building — which in a model, drawings and

French architect Jean Nouvel has been tapped to design a new orchestra hall for Paris, the prime minister’s office said Thursday April 5, 2007. The 2,400-seat hall, called the Philharmonie de Paris, will be home base for the Orchestre de Paris and other groups, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s office said in a statement. Nouvel’s [...]